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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
abschaumno1
boxoftheskyking

So I know in the film version of the hobbit they had a v dramatic and tragic version of Far Over the Misty Mountains but never forget that I played thorin oakenshield in a stage version when I was 10 and we sang it to the YMCA song.

boxoftheskyking

To clarify, it went:
Far over! The misty mountains cold
To dungeons! Deep and caverns old
We must a! Way ere break of day to
Seek! The! Pale! En! Chan! Ted!
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
We’re gonna go defeat
S M A U G
We’re gonna go defeat..

Etc

I also got in trouble for stabbing smaug in the eye by accident
And Gollum was a girl in a wet suit and flippers.

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abschaumno1
secularbakedgoods

I know I’ve talked about this before, but I’m really sick of seeing writers who should know better say things like, “Tragedy is more compelling than stories where characters have a nice day and nothing bad happens!” without understanding why.

Tragedy is an effective story element when it’s a deviation from the norm. A character’s peaceful existence is disrupted by a catastrophic event that throws everything into chaos. The character now has to either develop so they can cope with the new status quo, or find a way to put things back the way they were. There’s a good story in that.

But when a character’s life is an unrelenting cavalcade of misery, another heaping dose of shit isn’t all that interesting. At that point, a compelling deviation from the norm would be said character having a nice day where nothing bad happens. And modern fiction is chock-full of misery porn, so by this logic, it’s no wonder the coffee shop AU is such a popular fanfiction trope.

Derek Hale getting a dog and putting his life back together is way more interesting than Derek Hale’s life getting worse for the 26th consecutive episode. Creators like to hold up “everything is fine and nobody dies” as a sign that fanfic is bland and badly written, but if anything, it’s an indicator that mainstream fiction is bland and badly written. 

perenniallyfascinating

But when a character’s life is an unrelenting cavalcade of misery, another heaping dose of shit isn’t all that interesting 

bethanyactually

ifitwerentforthatmeddlingkid

I can think of precisely one time in which a series of unfortunate events made for a truly compelling story and that’s when Lemony Snicket wrote it

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abschaumno1
smithsonianmag.com

This Artist Is the Only Person Banned From Using the World’s Pinkest Pink

It's a brightly colored revenge for restricting the world’s blackest black
Danny Lewis
zohbugg

Anish Kapoor has long been known for his large-scale, intensely colored artworks, but his penchant for being proprietary has long irked others in the art world.

But then came Vantablack.

Earlier this year, Kapoor sparked outrage from artists all over the world with the announcement that he had made a deal to become the only person in the world allowed to use the blackest pigment of black paint ever developed. Known as Vantablack, the unique carbon nanotube-based pigment is produced solely by a British company called NanoSystem, and was originally developed for military technologies. However, Kapoor made an agreement with the company that he is the only person allowed to use it for artistic purposes.

Needless to say, that made plenty of other artists furious.

“When I first heard that Anish had the exclusive rights to the blackest black I was really disappointed,” artist Stuart Semple tells Kevin Holmes for The Creators Project. “I was desperate to have a play with it in my own work and I knew lots of other artists who wanted to use it too. It just seemed really mean-spirited and against the spirit of generosity that most artists who make and share their work are driven by.”

Like Kapoor, Semple’s work often uses vivid shades of color, and for years he had worked with scientists to develop increasingly intense pigments to use in his artwork. So as a response to Kapoor’s exclusive deal with Vantablack, Semple decided to release his own special pigment, known simply as “Pink,” the Irish Examiner reports.

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While “Pink” isn’t based on nanotechnology, like Vantablack, Semple says it is the pinkest pink pigment ever created. Now, in an effort to thumb his nose at Kapoor, Semple is making it for sale to everyone in the world—except Kapoor, Tom Power reports for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Q.

i am living have you ever been this petty  

😂😂😂

bemusedlybespectacled

i am sobbing

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To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this paint will not make it’s way into that hands of Anish Kapoor.

can you imagine

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